So the USDA is going to spend $9 million dollars of taxpayer dollars to destroy 420,000 fruit-bearing trees and massive surplus of peaches to "maintain fruit prices" they won't donate the peaches to food banks, churches or feed the hungry, alright.
UPDATE: Number of injuries rises to 7 in shooting at In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, city spokesman tells AP.
The death toll remained at 3, though it wasn't immediately clear if the suspect was among the 3 dead.
Wait - which is it?
Are the war colleges the home of the people who created the entire senior officer corps, or are they paper mills, from which no one ever gets promoted into any real position of responsibility?
You guys need to get your myths in order here :)
The elements with the most flexibility control the entire system.
Not the strongest element, not the latest element.
Not the one that's been there the longest.
The most flexible one.
A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates.
A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat.
An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her.
here's what happened in between.
Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour.
she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all."
police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement.
This means:
Snapchat scans private messages.
Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.
Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.
in under an hour.
Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.
you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.
the message was private.
it wasn't.
🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed.
The bank says its AML team conducted a careful review that identified suspicious transaction patterns and made the decision under federal anti-money laundering obligations.
Frank E. Higgins was a PCUSA missionary to the lumberjack camps in Minnesota, Oregon, and the Adirondacks from 1895-1920.
Lumberjack Sky Pilot, tells of his missionary journeys, and how the lumbermen only responded to "Muscular Christianity."🧵
Muscular Christianity was a philosophical movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century, characterized by a belief in patriotic duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, manliness, and the moral and physical beauty of athleticism
Capital One said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an internal review by the bank’s anti-money laundering team. https://t.co/OIS1fsSBws
BREAKING: Trump Media has officially launched its new paid data service, providing faster access to Truth Social posts from President Trump.
The new service is called "Truth API" which gives firms "a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most market-moving Truths," the company's CEO said in a press release.
The service reportedly costs as much as $100,000/month.